It gets harder and harder to deny global warming

In a strategy review for Congress this week, the Pentagon now ranks global warming as a “destabilizing force” for the first time. From an excerpt of the review: “While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict.” It will be interesting to see what conservatives do with this development. How will Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK, the poster boy for conservatism) will respond to an official military review. After all he blew off previous national security warnings from military brass like retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn and Gens. Wesley Clark, Stephen Cheney and Brent Scowcroft.